R Eccles

..To determine the efficacy of inferior turbinate coblation for the treatment of nasal obstruction...

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..The aim of this review was to determine the safety and efficacy of the analgesics, aspirin, paracetamol and aspirin for the treatment of colds and flu...

..The objective of this study was to investigate the efficacy and safety of ASA for the treatment of sore throat pain associated with URTI...

..The idea is developed that a sweet taste may modulate cough at the level of the nucleus tractus solitarius, possibly by influencing the production of endogenous opioids...

..However, most studies have investigated its clinical efficacy in healthy patients and few have included patients with common cold...

..The purpose of this study was to characterize objectively and subjectively the decongestant and additional effects of xylometazoline in the common cold...

..We also wished to investigate if there was any difference in cough sensitivity between healthy subjects and those with acute upper respiratory tract infection (URTI)...

..The mechanisms of symptoms of sore throat, rhinorrhoea, sneezing, nasal congestion, cough, watery eyes, and sinus pain are discussed, since these mechanisms are not dealt with in any detail in standard medical textbooks...

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..An understanding of the placebo and nocebo effects is important for general allergy practice, and harnessing the power of the true placebo effect is a major challenge to modern medicine...

..Restrictions on sales of PDE to the public may not reduce the problems associated with methamphetamine abuse...

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..The mechanism of unilateral nasal obstruction with rhinosinusitis is discussed...

..A case is also made to suggest that warming of the nasal airway during fever and nasal congestion may help to resolve a current URTI...

..With active pharmacological ingredients contributing only 15% to the effects of cough treatment it seems reasonable to conduct more research on the other components of treatment such as placebo...

..The placebo effect in clinical trials may be controlled by use of a crossover design, where feasible, and the changes in the magnitude of the placebo effect in this study design are discussed...

..Such studies provide evidence that reduced nasal airflow causes no significant nasal disease. . There is no convincing evidence that a reduction in nasal airflow is a causative factor for rhinitis or sinusitis...

..Rather than classify populations according to unscientific categories such as race, anthropometric measures such as the nasal index are proposed...

..The importance of considering the nose as two separate airways in the evaluation of nasal treatments is emphasized...

..The additive effect of the combination was apparent for both single and multiple doses...

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..02). The absence of any physiological differences between the different nose types may be due to acclimatisation of participants to the area of recruitment...

..The underlying pathology of turbinate enlargement has important implications for the surgical management of nasal obstruction...

..Although there was improvement in the subjective assessment of nasal obstruction, this did not achieve statistical significance...

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..To utilize posterior rhinomanometry and conductance, as units of measurement, to further investigate the relationship between subjective and objective measures of nasal airflow...

..01), and with patient subjective symptom assessment r= 0.94 (P < 0.01) preoperatively and r= 0.51 (P < 0.01) postoperatively. The findings indicate that nasal spirometry may be useful in patient selection for septal surgery...

..Current research on treating excessive airway mucus in the lower airways may be applicable to PNDS...

..This method of inducing cough in subjects with URTI may be useful for studies on the mechanism of cough and for studies on antitussive medicines...

..Nasal septal surgery is a common procedure, but there are concerns that the benefits of this surgery are mainly cosmetic...

..In conclusion the results support the folklore that a hot tasty drink is a beneficial treatment for relief of most symptoms of common cold and flu...

..Of the expected side-effects, 13.3% of doxylamine-treated patients reported drowsiness. The incidence of sedative effects was lower than has been reported for other commonly used first-generation antihistamines...

..The airway vibration model of cough may have some advantages over inhaled tussigens as the stimulus is easily controlled and the method is safe for use in children...

..The results illustrate the incidence of complete unilateral nasal obstruction associated with URTI when lying flat and demonstrate the usefulness of nasal spirometry in studying nasal airflow partitioning in health and disease...

..Researchers continue to categorise demograpic variables according to racial lines despite the fact that the definition of race has no scientific or anthropological validity...

..To assess the frequency and severity of coughing and choking episodes, possible related factors, and their association with chest infections in patients with motor neuron disease (MND)...

..Data of average nasal anthropometric values for various ethnic groups is promoted to be of great importance in planning aesthetic nasal surgery, but there may be fundamental problems with this approach...

..There was great interest in the 19th and early 20th century in classifying human races as Caucasian, Asian African etc. according to nasal shape and size, and the nasal index was the most commonly used measurement to differentiate races...

..A cough model demonstrating the voluntary and reflex control of cough in man is proposed. A hypothesis is proposed that cough associated with common cold is a mixture of both reflex and voluntary cough...

..Spirometry has considerable advantages over rhinomanometry for studies on the nasal cycle because of portability and ease of use...

..Conclusions. Compliant prophylactic intake of E. purpurea over a 4-month period appeared to provide a positive risk to benefit ratio...

..Nasal obstruction is a very common problem associated with common cold and topical nasal decongestant sprays are effective symptomatic treatments causing a decrease in nasal airway resistance (NAR)...

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..This study investigated the efficacy and safety of a combination nasal spray of ipratropium and xylometazoline for simultaneous treatment of these symptoms...

..Support for the decongestant efficacy of multiple doses of pseudoephedrine is provided by objective measures on day 3 and subjective measures made over three days, but not by the VAS scores on day 3...

..Improved methods for measuring nasal sensations are required to further investigate the relationship between objective and subjective measures of nasal obstruction...

..The aim of this study was to measure the minimum difference in unilateral airflow that can be reliably detected by a patient...

..CONCLUSION: Acute chilling of the feet causes the onset of common cold symptoms in around 10% of subjects who are chilled. Further studies are needed to determine the relationship of symptom generation to any respiratory infection...

..A case may be made that patients on the waiting list that fall within the normal range of NPR are unlikely to benefit from septal surgery because their nasal passages are not greatly asymmetrical...